Sentences with phrase «stringent graduation requirements»

Among them: stringent graduation requirements, national standards, new approaches to how reading and math are taught, smaller classes, smaller schools, greater accountability through increased testing, and a focus on recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers.

That cohort was significant because it was the first to face new, more stringent graduation requirements.

One reason is that a large percentage of the economically disadvantaged students most affected by the more stringent graduation requirements enter school with weak cognitive and socioemotional skills, which tend to trail them throughout their school careers.

Although not without exceptions, the evidence generally indicates that more stringent graduation requirements reduced high school graduation rates among vulnerable groups, specifically low - achieving students (including those with learning disabilities), students of color, and urban low - income students.

Combining these data sets allowed me to adopt an analytic approach similar to the one I used to examine the effects of more stringent graduation requirements on educational attainment and employment.

Connecticut created more stringent graduation requirements and a teacher evaluation system that used student achievement.

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But if states enforced similarly stringent requirements for exit exams, graduation rates — now over 80 percent nationally — would plummet and political outrage would ensue.